Plug-Ins

[StevenWWinters]

Since this is a major new/improved feature of Xtreme, how about a thread to report/review the status of plug-ins that have been tested (commercial, shareware, and freeware). I haven't used plug-ins much in the past but am much more interested now that Xtreme will do a much better job of utilizing them. Eventually this could be compiled and presented on a web page (perhaps XaraXone?) for better presentation.

Feedback I think would be useful is below. If others have other criteria, please add:

o Plug-in name.
o Brief description of functionality.
o Web site.
o Price.
o Works 100%, partially, or not at all (w/ details/anomolies provided).
o Works with bitmaps only, vector only, or both.
o Xara specific or Photoshop compatible.

[John Rayner]

That might be a good section of the forum... like the swap brushes section.

good idea Steven! I will second the motion.

[stlewis]

And thirded...

I have browsed quite a few, and although many of them are just a few £/$/€, if you buy 10 and only 3 are good then it is annoying.

[gwpriester]

I think I heard something to the effect that this will be part of the Xtreme page when it goes live on the Xara site.

Gary

[AntonyF]

There will be a web page on the website, that's correct.

But this is a good idea about the forum, and we'll add one soon. We're also going to fold the XPE forum back into the main Xara X forum, as it's not highly trafficked.

[netsi]

Hi All,

Well, I am a big smile - after trying out Xara Xtreme (cool name BTW) last night and today at work I feel luckey...: Favourite drawing package has been reborn...

The focus is on plug-ins, because of the ability to keep things sort of vector based even after applying plug-in effects... but but but...

Is that all? Do we want a embedded Photoshop as the major upgrade to our beloved Xara X? Hmmm.. Allright it IS very cool, but I am looking for information about HOW 3rd party programmers can interact with Xara Xtreme...

Where do I get that information? Do I really have to learn the Adobe Plug-in standard to integrate with Xara Xtreme?

I have seen the PDF-export filter but, and I guess other ways of integration is possibel - but how??? Please tell me! :-)

[Snowbird57]

Just been trying Extreme and was amazed how easy Picture Editor works with plug-in. Attached is recent winter picture it was adjusted with a Craqualure 3D water ripple plug-in I'm inpressed so far. Going to buy this one for sure
Snowbird57